Methods and effects of radiotherapy for lung cancer

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Lung cancer has become a common malignant tumor. Incidence rate and mortality rate of all kinds of tumors are the highest in China. With the development of medicine, radiotherapy has become an important treatment for lung cancer. Today we talk about the way and effect of radiotherapy for lung cancer.

Methods and effects of radiotherapy for lung cancer

The first is that lung cancer is a very high incidence rate in both China and China. It is the first cause of death. In city, male and female are the first causes of death. The risk factors of lung cancer are manifold. It is suggested that air pollution, smoking environment and genetic factors are all related. It's a tumor.

Second, lung cancer can be divided into two categories according to its pathological morphology: small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. Then non-small cell lung cancer can be divided into lymphoid cell carcinoma, linear carcinoma, bronchoalveolar carcinoma, and some rare types of tumors according to its pathological morphology. From the perspective of pathological morphology, if we can divide central lung cancer and marginal lung cancer from imaging, then from the perspective of gene analysis, that is, from the signal transduction of some gene mutation cells found at present, we can divide them into different types of lung cancer with different gene mutation.

Third: there are many patients who need radiotherapy for lung cancer. The first is radical radiotherapy. For some tumors, they are not suitable for surgery, or the patients can not tolerate surgery. If they are in an extreme stage or relatively early stage, they can receive radiotherapy. In other words, if the patient does not want to have surgery due to physical reasons or the patient's will, he can also have stereotactic treatment, including s-knife and CyberKnife. In addition, some patients also need radiotherapy after surgery, for example, patients with stage III a lymph node metastasis after surgery should also need radiotherapy, or patients with positive resection or incomplete resection after surgery should also need radiotherapy. In addition, there are some relatively advanced patients, such as patients with stage III B, or patients with stage IV, who are unable to perform surgery, so they should also be treated with radiotherapy. Other advanced patients, such as bone metastasis or brain metastasis of lung cancer or metastasis of other parts, should also be treated with radiotherapy.

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After the occurrence of lung cancer metastasis, the treatment is generally to adopt comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment, which is also the principle of our current tumor treatment. According to the patient's physical condition, disease stage, pathological type and biological characteristics, comprehensive treatment is adopted, including chemical treatment, eight treatments, biological treatment, traditional Chinese Medicine treatment and radiotherapy. If there are multiple distant metastasis Radiotherapy is also very effective in relieving symptoms, reducing pain and prolonging patients' life.